The Gantry Episode (1968) by June Drummond was published by Victor Gollancz. One of a host of novels published in the late 1960s, which all had LSD being pumped into a local water supply as their major premise, this particular one manages to stay well clear of any lurid hippie...

There’s something strangely strange about moving into an odd(ly normal) year, a feeling which started like the gentle flap of a butterfly’s wings in 2011, and is now whirring into a psychedelic storm – the return of the brilliant biennial Breaking Convention: Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness. In Greenwich, London, at...

The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets & Sacraments is something of a rare find when it comes to books on psychedelics. Described by its author, former Harvard and UCLA researcher William Leonard Pickard, as a “literary experiment,” his 2016 debut is an intriguing exploration of altered states of consciousness from...

Author Ben Sessa is a psychiatrist, and his novel starts with a psychiatrist character, Dr Robert Austell, having a violent fantasy where he cuts a patient’s throat with a scalpel and nonchalantly watches her bleed to death. The reader can be forgiven for momentarily wandering just how autobiographical the work is, and...

This review first appeared in the Psychedelic Press journal 2015 Volume III Albert Hofmann in Godenholm Ernst Jünger’s short novel Visit to Godenholm, first published in Germany in 1952 as Besuch auf Godenholm[i], is now available in English language translation for the first time, thanks to the efforts of its...

It is with great pleasure that we can announce the publication of Psychedelic Press UK Journal 2015 Volume VI. Copies are available from the Psychedelic Press website for just £6 (+ p&p). As well as the brilliant cover by Sam Emm, there’s a fantastic selection of articles in the last...

The books I most enjoy reviewing are those that turn up unannounced on my doorstep. Books that haven’t been heavily marketed on the fact that you’re already aware of the majority of their content, or that slip into a reading category so rigid and pre-defined that its content is predictable...

The Psychedelic Press UK journal is a high quality, bi-monthly print publication dedicated to the role of psychoactive substances in science, history, literature, and culture. Since 2012, the journal has been an important part of the burgeoning psychedelic scene in not only the UK, but also the wider world, featuring...

We are very delighted to able to announce the publication Out of the Shadows: A Cornucopia from the Psychedelic Press UK – Edited by Robert Dickins & Tim Read – which we teamed up with Muswell Hill Press to produce. Pick up your copy of this fabulous collection here. From the back: In their...